شمع اور شاعر
ہفت کشور جس سے ہو تسخیر بے تیغ و تفنگتو اگر سمجھے تو تیرے پاس وہ ساماں بھی ہے
English translation
What conquers the whole world without sword and gun; if you understand the material is also in your mettle.
Translated by Dr M.A.K. Khalil
Word meanings
ہفت کشور: سات ولا یتیں۔
About this couplet
This is couplet 72 of 86 in “شمع اور شاعر” (The Candle And The Poet) in the section Poems of Period - 1908-30, from Allama Muhammad Iqbal's Urdu book Bang-e-Dara (بانگِ درا), published in 1924.
Read it in the poem۷۲ / ۸۶